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Kamis, 12 Januari 2017

What’s the big journalism trend for 2017? Fear (oh, and voice news bots): The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

What’s the big journalism trend for 2017? Fear (oh, and voice news bots)

On the bright side, “nothing stimulates technological development like war.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

D.C. publisher Local News Now closed two sites last year, but it’s still bullish on advertising

“For now, even though it’s not perfect, advertising is paying the bills and until there is a better solution we’re going to stick with it.” By Joseph Lichterman.

At the BBC, the launch of in-app vertical video is a step toward connecting with new audiences

The BBC’s digital team worked alongside the editorial staff to shape the coverage and determine best practices for vertical video. By Joseph Lichterman.

Facebook rolls out Flipboard-y story packages, subscription tests, and video metrics for big publishers

What We’re Reading

Washington Post / Teddy Amenabar

The Washington Post is launching a newsletter dedicated to the best reader comments →

“The newsletter will have three parts: one major conversation, a few popular comments from across the site, and then two or three places where you can go right now to join a discussion.”

The Christian Science Monitor / Rachel Stern

Germany’s plan to fight fake news →

“One German official has proposed fining Facebook 500,000 euros for failing to delete fake news stories and hate messages within 24 hours.”

Variety / Dave McNary

The Center for Investigative Reporting launches an initiative to support women in documentary filmmaking →

Its Glassbreaker Films initiative will support five female filmmakers to produce a documentary series about women “taking control, taking power, and taking chances” (the program is supported with funding from the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation).

Wikimedia Blog / Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation gets a $3M grant to make freely licensed images accessible and reusable across the web →

The grant is from the Alford P. Sloan Foundation.

Columbia Journalism Review / Shelley Hepworth

A Wall Street Journal reporter on his jump to Breitbart News →

Journal reporter John Carney will lead a team of contributors in establishing a business vertical for Breitbart. There won’t be “fake news emanating from Breitbart,” he told CJR, and insists that the site’s reputation as a breeding ground for racist, sexist, and xenophobic views is undeserved.

Digiday / Sahil Patel

Reuters TV now has 1 million monthly viewers →

"What makes mid-form valuable is that it's utilitarian — I have 15 or 20 minutes for my commute — being able to provide value in those moments is something you can use to form habits.”

Digiday / Max Willens

How publishers squeeze new traffic out of their old content →

“The Atlantic, which uses archival material on both the print and digital sides of its business, now generates more than a quarter of its traffic every month from older content. At publications like Business Insider, the figure is even higher, and for lifestyle-focused publications like Refinery29 it's higher still: 35 percent, and growing.”

Rabu, 11 Januari 2017

When it comes to legal issues, journalism schools leave students unprepared, a new study argues: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

When it comes to legal issues, journalism schools leave students unprepared, a new study argues

“Even though online platforms are where nearly all journalists today begin their career, the internet is often presented as a bolt-on topic when it comes to media law.” By Ricardo Bilton.

Local breaking news comes to investigations-focused Colorado public TV, via The Weather Channel

“We’re trying to make it more convenient for people to get more of the big picture of local news.” By Shan Wang.

Hot Pod: The three numbers that mark the state of podcasting in 2017

Plus: What new and returning shows to expect in the new year, Panoply launches an “imprint,” and a liberal podcast network tries to counterbalance conservative talk radio. By Nicholas Quah.

What We’re Reading

Medium / Jack Conte

Patreon’s users have been paid over $100 million →

“No advertisers, no ‘native ad units,’ no financing gymnastics that incentivize clicks instead of beauty. Just fans paying creators to make the work they love. It's a simple and beautiful model.”

Twitter / Runa Sandvik

The New York Times is now HTTPS by default →

Runa Sandvik, the Times’s director of information security for the newsroom, tweeted news of the move, which has been in the works for several years.

Columbia Journalism Review / Emily Bell

“Donald Trump is a media organization” →

“In many ways, Trump sees himself not just in opposition to the existing press but in competition with them, too.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

‘You might as well get going’: Late newsroom start times have gone the way of drink carts and private offices →

"In digital, you might as well get going. There's no deadline. There's always a deadline."

Business Insider / Oliver Darcy

Television personality Nancy Grace launches a digital media venture focused on crime news →

True crime is a popular podcast genre, and Grace will be adding to the mix with a daily podcast of her own (“It will be the go-to for crime sleuths and people who want knowledge about crime and crime fighting,” she told Business Insider).

Bloomberg / Joshua Green

A Wall Street Journal veteran moves to Breitbart →

“‘Breitbart was way ahead of the curve on politics and the rise of Trump,’ [John] Carney said in a telephone interview. ‘I think there's an opportunity to do that for business, finance and economic news.'”

The New York Times / Margalit Fox

Clare Hollingworth, the reporter who broke news of World War II, dies at 105 →

“Ms. Hollingworth was never so happy, she often said, as when she was roaming the world equipped with little more than a toothbrush, a typewriter and, if need be, a revolver. Embedded long before the term was applied to journalists, she slept in trucks and in trenches, at times buried up to her neck in sand for warmth on cold desert nights. She once held off an armed Algerian policeman by threatening to hit him about the head with a shoe.”

WWD / Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

The New York Times focuses on Smarter Living →

“Started as a ‘module on the homepage’ last summer, the online section serves up several stories a day that provide life tips and advice with clickable and shareable headlines. In December, Tim Herrera, a growth strategy editor who had been working on ‘Smarter Living’ since its debut, became the full-time head of the section.”

Backchannel / Andrew Watts

Where weird Facebook is king: How a college kid does social →

More videos and the rise of “Weird Facebook” is raising the platform’s status in the eyes of teens once more.

AdWeek

New site Civilized wants to ‘alter the perception of cannabis users’ →

“The site, which aims to be the ‘Vanity Fair of cannabis culture,’ is a place for people to freely discuss the use of cannabis, trends or products that go along with it, as well as policy analysis surrounding the ever-evolving attitude of the law toward the legalization of weed, both medical or recreational.”

Digiday / Ross Benes

‘A shrewd move’: Publishers see Facebook mid-roll ads as potential boon →

Although publishers liked the mid-roll format, there was uneasiness that engagement might drop off after ads are inserted into videos.

Selasa, 10 Januari 2017

Axios launches newsletters, gearing up toward a full-fledged site just in time for the Trump administration: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, January 9, 2017

Axios launches newsletters, gearing up toward a full-fledged site just in time for the Trump administration

“I look at Axios as a rolling R&D lab,” Jim VandeHei, chairman and CEO of the new venture, said in a Q&A. By Shan Wang.

Swipe to unlock: Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 10 years ago today, changing journalism forever

“We’re gonna make some history together today” — he wasn’t wrong. By Joseph Lichterman.

The Timmerman Report is putting customer service at the center of its one-man news business

“As a businessman, I try to run this like a Main Street shop. If you're a subscriber and you have some issue, I need to respond to those issues promptly, as if it was your neighborhood hardware store. That's part of my job.” By Ricardo Bilton.

Enjoy Nieman Lab? Support the Nieman Foundation and the impact of your gift will be doubled

Through January 19, individual gifts up to $1,000 will be matched by the Knight Foundation — making this the best time to support the work we do every day. By Joshua Benton.

What We’re Reading

Recode / Peter Kafka

Facebook is going to start showing ads in the middle of its videos and sharing the money with publishers →

“For now, Facebook will sell the ads and share the revenue with publishers, giving them 55 percent of all sales. That's the same split offered by YouTube, which dominates the online video ad business. If the new ads take off, they could represent the first chance many video publishers have had to make real money from the stuff they've been running on Facebook.”

The New York Times / Liz Spayd

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet on the paper’s future →

“I grew up in an era when the most powerful entity in the economics of journalism was advertising. And newspapers didn't know much about what readers wanted. Their economics were driven by what advertisers wanted. And now the economics of a place like The New York Times are almost the total reverse. Readers pay our bills more than they ever have. We have to listen to them — and I'd really, really rather be listening to a group of readers, even if they're mad at me, than a group of advertisers who might be mad at me.”

The Stranger / Heidi Groover

More than 20 people are leaving the Seattle Times newsroom after buyouts and layoffs →

“Including both the buyouts and layoffs, the list is heavy on editors. Earlier this week, [editor Don] Shelton outlined the company’s plan for “restructuring.” Along with “short, trendy posts,” aggregating other outlets’ stories, and using analytics to figure out which beats to emphasize, Shelton said the paper will reduce the amount of editing and design for stories that are not on the front page.”

BuzzFeed / Adrian Carrasquillo

Why President Trump is “A nightmare for Univision” →

“Current and former executives, talent and employees paint a picture of a network that went all-in on a Hillary Clinton victory and vanquishing the man they painted as a real-life villain for a year and a half — a network wholly unprepared for the possibility that he might win. One former executive said there was no plan B. ‘The hubris was so large they were sure they were going to win,’ they said.”

Agence France-Presse

German police quash Breitbart story of mob setting fire to Dortmund church →

“The local newspaper, Ruhr Nachrichten, said elements of its online reporting on New Year's Eve had been distorted by Breitbart to produce “fake news, hate and propaganda.'”

The Daily Beast / Matt Wilstein

The ‘Keepin’ it 1600′ guys launched a new media company that aims to challenge Trump →

Former Obama administration staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor are back with a new podcast called Pod Save America, under the banner of their new company — Crooked Media.

Sabtu, 07 Januari 2017

Under its new CEO, New York Magazine is branching out into more “voice-y news products”: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, January 6, 2017

Under its new CEO, New York Magazine is branching out into more “voice-y news products”

“We’re making sure that we’re appropriately marketing directly to consumers and really selling subscriptions at full price.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

With its subscribers Facebook group, The Boston Globe is mining the stickiest corners of the platform

An average post in the private subscribers group of just over 2,000 members attracts about twice the number of comments as a post on the Globe’s main Facebook page, which is approaching half a million likes. By Shan Wang.

The Internet Archive is building up a Trump presidential library — of everything he’s ever said, on video

What We’re Reading

WWD / Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Fusion faces its new reality →

After laying off 70 in November, Fusion is now rolled up into the Gizmodo Media Group (part of what is called the Fusion Media Group). On the business side, Fusion's sales team has been centralized, so sales staff can now combine the company's web traffic numbers to add scale and sell by category across the 11 sites that make up the FMG, a larger structure that includes the eight sites under the GMG umbrella as well the Onion, Clickhole, and the AV Club.

The New York Times / Laura M. Holson

Condé Nast’s vast archive of photos and illustrations will be for sale soon in the form of prints, totes, and more →

Until recently, the archive team's priority was preservation. But given the industrywide losses in print advertising, Condé Nast and other media companies are turning to new sources of revenue. Since his appointment as Condé Nast's photography director for the archive, Ivan Shaw has been readying an online store, to be called Condé Nast Editions.

The New York Times / Jim Rutenberg

Facebook hires Campbell Brown to lead news partnerships team →

“The position is a new one for Facebook. In the role, Ms. Brown will "help news organizations and journalists work more closely and more effectively with Facebook," she wrote on her Facebook page Friday afternoon.”

Bloomberg View / Leonid Bershidsky

Why Medium failed to disrupt the media →

“There is no way to disrupt this the way Uber is disrupting the taxi business: Writing to which people will subscribe is not a commodity. It’s rare and expensive, and it’s not about good software or buzzwords like “network effect.” That will probably be the next revelation for Williams as he retraces the steps of “legacy” publishers.”

New York / Susannah Edelbaum

If you’re obsessed with being French, this newsletter is superbe →

“The site has 3 million subscribers, mainly in Europe. But that seems poised to change, as Péchiodat and her team of 130 trained their sights on the United States this week.”

Motherboard / Jordan Pearson

Here’s 520 hours of searchable Donald Trump interviews →

“The good folks at the Internet Archive have created a growing repository of more than 520 hours of Donald Trump TV interviews and appearances, from 2009 to now. The archive of video is searchable, and comes with a video editor for making supercuts. Go nuts.”

Jumat, 06 Januari 2017

Medium lays off dozens as it tries to find a publishing business model that may not actually exist yet: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Medium lays off dozens as it tries to find a publishing business model that may not actually exist yet

But what happens to the publishers who gave up some measure of their independence for the platform? By Laura Hazard Owen.

“Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”: Local news could see a windfall from the FCC’s spectrum auction

The advocacy group Free Press is encouraging public broadcasters to invest their earnings back into local news and information. By Joseph Lichterman.

BuzzFeed’s Tasty cookbook sold enough copies on a single site in 2 months to make it one of the bestselling cookbooks of the year

What We’re Reading

MarketWatch / Keiko Morris

Amazon to open brick-and-mortar bookstore in Manhattan →

The store will open in Manhattan’s Time Warner Center by Central Park. Amazon also has stories in Seattle, San Diego, and Portland, Ore., and they are planned for Chicago and Dedham, Mass.

CNNMoney / Dylan Byers

Facebook Live torture video raises ethical questions for social media giant →

The company will face even more scrutiny over its role as a disseminator of news.

The Verge / James Vincent

Vine app will shut down and become Vine Camera on January 17th →

“You'll only be able to post the videos to Twitter (where, yes, they'll loop) or download them to your camera roll.”

Medium / Adam Thomas

Do we need more news addicts? →

“We need to understand what can trigger certain behaviors in life (and in-app) to make return consumption more likely.”

Reuters

Norway is eliminating FM radio →

“Critics say the government is rushing the move and fear many people may miss emergency alerts that until now have been broadcast via FM radio. Of particular concern are the 2m cars on Norway's roads that are not equipped with digital audio broadcasting (DAB) receivers, they say.”

Vox / Lauren Katz

What Vox has learned from its Facebook group for Obamacare enrollees →

“We've learned that a Facebook community can be an incredibly productive space for our readers to go through a shared experience together — and for us at Vox to interact with our audience in a completely new way.”

First Draft News / Claire Wardle

First Draft adds 40 partners to its network →

“The goal of the partner network is to help raise knowledge and standards, agree to possible solutions, put them into practice and share learnings and recommendations.”

Media Nation / Dan Kennedy

No more “paper of record”: More details from a newsroom memo on the Boston Globe’s reinvention →

“We're planning to set up a room-wide Express Desk as soon as possible. This is designed to get news in front of the eyes of our readers quickly, and to have a fascinating diversity of news.”

Quartz / Zachary M. Seward

Quartz is now delivered over HTTPS →

“At some point soon, you won't want to use a website at all if it's not communicating securely with you.”

New York Times / Katie Benner and Sui-Lee Wee

Apple removes New York Times apps from iTunes Store in China →

“The move limits access to one of the few remaining channels for readers in mainland China to read The Times without resorting to special software.”